Hi we are investigating using deadline for our workflow. In the docs it says:
Starting with Deadline version 10.1.4, we began deprecating the Balancer and the Cloud panel, as well as the five supporting Cloud Plugins that work with these features (Amazon, Azure, Google, OpenStack, and vCenter).
We use on prem in multiple regions and like to use multiple cloud providers, will this still be possible in future ? Or is this going to be restricted to AWS only ? Will there be a way to use hardware wherever we want ?
The cloud plugins are deprecated it means that you will not be able to use them from the Monitor. But you will still be able to install and use Deadline anywhere provided the OS is supported to check which ones are supported take a look at here: System Requirements — Deadline 10.2.0.10 documentation
If you like to install Deadline on a remote machine (anywhere) you will still be able to connect it back to your on-prem farm and render with it.
So will there be a functionality that can start VMs automatically based on the job queue ? Or would we have to write our own code to connect to the db and then start insfrastructure on cloud providers ?
There will not be a functionality to start Virtual machines automatically. You will be able to spin them up manually and connect them back to the farm. Once they are connected the rendering will work fine.
The automation part needs to be developed and maintained on your side. You can follow the example of a script in [Repo]/events/Spot/Spot.py, which does the similar automation but on AWS (it has AWS APIs).